Vickie Tanner (Teaching Artist, Solo Performer) holds a BFA in Theatre from California State University at Long Beach and trained with Maggie Flanigan at Maggie Flanigan Studios and William Esper Studio in New York.Vickie is currently working with Roundabout Theatre, Symphony Space, BAM, Marquis Studios, ENACT, Tempest Productions and many other arts and education companies, creating workshops teaching everything from African influence on American music to conflict resolution. Vickie has also written a Solo play called RUNNING INTO ME. It is a multi-character play based on her childhood in South Central Los Angeles and it gives voice to today's urban teens using interviews she conducted with students during her ten years as a teaching artist in NYC public schools. RUNNING INTO ME has been performed at The Kitchen Theatre, Playwright's theatre, City Lights, and Tempest Theatre Company. Among her other theatre credits are STOMP (Orpheum Theatre, National and European Tours); world premiere of TANTALUS, Denver Center Theatre and British tour with the Royal Shakespeare Company; TWO DAYS, Long Wharf Theatre; and THAT DAMN DYKSTRA at Access Theatre. Film credits include Drop Back Ten, Acts of Worship, No Way Out and The Apology. Television: "NYPD Blue", ABC, "STOMP Out Loud" HBO, "Wonderland", ABC, and "Law and Order SVU", NBC. |
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RUNNING INTO ME NYC Teaching Artist Tells It from Teens' Perspective
For information on booking Running Into Me or workshops with Vickie * With parental permission, the play is appropriate for young people (14+) to attend who are concerned with current events. The play has strong language and discusses tough issues facing teenagers, teachers and school administrators. |
Vickie Tanner knows firsthand the effect that poverty, drugs, and inadequate inner city schools can have on a teen. She grew up in South Central Los Angeles, in a home where, as she tells it, "no one saw to my breakfast, no one saw to it I was dressed in clean clothes, no one told me about my period... No one taught me how to survive." She did survive, though, and went on to earn a degree in theater from Cal State Long Beach and embark on a successful performing career that has included the national and European tours of the hit show STOMP and numerous film and television credits. RUNNING INTO ME tells the stories of some of these young people woven together with memories of her school days. Tanner plays over a dozen characters: NYC teens, Los Angeles teachers and principals, and her own family and friends. In the hands of masterful storyteller Vickie Tanner and director Margarett Perry hope, expectation and the importance of listening come to life in the Kitchen Theatre Company's presentation of the first full staging of this work. |
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